Penllyn railway station (Wales)

Penllyn
Station on heritage railway
Warning sign at Penllyn terminus
General information
Location	Llanberis, Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	53°08′20″N 4°09′12″W / 53.1390°N 4.1533°W / 53.1390; -4.1533
Grid reference	SH 560 623
Platforms	0
History
Original company	Llanberis Lake Railway
Key dates
10 June 1972[1]	Opened

v t e Llanberis Lake Railway
Legend
Padarn Railway Pen-y-Llyn (PR) Penllyn passing loop Cei Llydan Gilfach Ddu (PR) Gilfach Ddu Dinorwic quarry Afon Rhythallt Llanberis (LLR) Llanberis (LNWR) Llanberis (SMR) Snowdon Mountain Railway Carnarvonshire Railway

Penllyn (LLR) railway station is the northern terminus of the Llanberis Lake Railway (LLR),^[2] located near Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales. The station has no platform, but passengers are allowed to alight.^[3]

Most of the LLR was laid around 1970 on part of the trackbed of the closed and lifted Padarn Railway. The line opened between Gilfach Ddu (LLR) and Cei Llydan on 28 May 1971, being extended northwards to Penllyn in 1972, changing Cei Llydan from a terminus to a through station.^[4] For thirty years Gilfach Ddu (LLR) was the new line's southern terminus, situated a short distance south of the site of the Padarn Railway's former workmen's station, also named Gilfach Ddu. In 2003 a wholly new extension was opened south westwards, with Llanberis (LLR) station as the line's new southern terminus. With this extension Gilfach Ddu (LLR) changed from a terminus to a through station.

Penllyn (LLR) is situated a short distance south of the site of the former Padarn Railway Pen-y-Llyn workmen's station.

The line and station primarily serve tourists and railway enthusiasts.^[5][6]

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Cei Llydan		Llanberis Lake Railway		Terminus